Choosing a New Start

A new cycle is about to begin. People in every corner of the world are moving into juxtaposition in order to take part in a quantum leap in consciousness.

If you have felt that you are in waiting mode, or that you have had a setback, remember the massive amounts of preparations you and others are making and have made. Put away your linear yardstick. Acknowledge that there is an accumulation of efforts involved, and sometimes your human self doesn’t see the whole picture.

To be sure, your efforts are individual, yet they are also cooperative as great numbers of people wake up and begin to connect energetically to create positive changes.

The initial phases of humanity’s transformational shifting, underway for a very long time, have led you to where you find yourself now. Some of this evolutionary growth you experienced before this incarnation, as you were preparing for what would occur during this pivotal life. As an example, you may have previously incarnated with people who you would meet again this time, helping one another to progress spiritually.

In this lifetime, you have encountered one or more wake up calls causing you to seriously challenge the status quo. There is no correct way for this process to occur, so avoid the temptation to label your experience or compare it with that of others.

Your Catalyzing Life Event

Your catalyzing life event could have been losing a job, experiencing a financial reversal, moving to a new place, divorcing your partner, facing a debilitating illness, or experiencing some other major change in circumstance. Any one or a number of these could have stirred a deep inner discontent and questioning of things you never before questioned. When this happens, it’s really a nudge from your soul, waking you up and guiding you to travel the path of spirit.

In today’s upheaval, people are oftentimes receiving what may appear to be more than one wake up call simultaneously. Also, people can have supplemental wake up calls a long time after their initial one.

Meaning of Wake Up Calls

If either of these is your situation, consider the following. First, the typical progression from wake up call to full awakening is anything but usual these days. You live in very different times, never before seen on the planet.

Humanity and the Earth are ascending, in a process that is leading to a more enlightened existence. You and others like you on the path of Light are creating a brand new way to co-exist and be. You did not have the same opportunities for awakening in earlier lifetimes.

Likewise, before this life you did not share the planet with so many people, nor was it possible for such a significant shift in consciousness to occur for the masses. Your wake up call, then, in the previous life had a different meaning, scope and potential impact.

Your Soul is Preparing You for Success

The second factor is this. Wake up calls in modern times are the soul’s way of preparing you to succeed on your path of Light during humanity’s shift. Your first one tends to set the stage for what follows.

If you pay attention to the first one, taking the opportunity to assess your life and noticing the nudges of your soul, you are redirected to a different course. How you respond to that redirection, and what actions you take, help to determine your forward spiritual progression.

As an example, if you respond to your soul’s nudges with an attitude of willingness and acceptance, your road ahead will have fewer bumps. The learned tendency, of course, is to resist change and to want to maintain the status quo.

When you are in resistance, you are likely to be blocked from receiving your inner guidance from spirit. The guidance is there, but you cannot access it. Instead, you may simply feel anger and alienation. These responses can leave you feeling disempowered and a victim of your outer circumstances.

The Process of Awakening

Here is the third factor. Despite how willing and accepting you are, and how connected you are to the nudges of your soul, your awakening is a process and not a single event. Remember that during this most precious human life, you have the potential of quantum levels of awakening not before possible!

This means that you may be a seasoned traveler-familiar with wake up calls and practiced in responding effectively-yet you won’t be complete with your awakening journey until you really ARE complete. Your ego-self can and will try to convince you that you represent a finished product. You can fool yourself into thinking you are fully enlightened, with no more awakening to experience.

This ego-based response is particularly prevalent within circles of lightworkers who compare themselves with the general populace. Certainly, when you compare yourself on a surface level with the masses that remain asleep, you are leaps and bounds ahead. Comparisons are a trick of the ego, though, and can derail you when you least suspect it.

Ready for The Big Changes

The fourth factor relates to readiness. How ready do you feel, on an everyday basis, for the big changes about to occur? Is your enthusiasm for positive change waning as you envision what’s ahead? Do you feel prepared to take on the challenges that are sure to come? Are you willing to go deeper within yourself to access the more stable sense of empowerment you will need to navigate the unpaved road ahead? Are you able to step back from the world’s fear-based messages often enough to stay in your center?

To be enmeshed in such a gigantic shifting process as you face today can take its toll. You likely are feeling impacted on a number of levels. The obvious includes your outer conditions involving your home, work, finances, human relationships, and physical health.

Other key elements include your emotional stability and repetitive thought patterns. These will determine the meaning you place on current events, and will trigger limiting belief systems recorded in your DNA. Examples are commonly-held beliefs involving lack, failure, and authority figures having power you can’t access. As belief systems such as these are catalyzed, your ability to successfully respond to crisis is compromised.

Most likely, you are being challenged beyond what you think your limits are. A part of you intuitively knows that much of your current world functioning is out of sync with where you want to be headed.

It’s not just the world financial system, now knee-deep in crisis. It’s virtually every sector of your old paradigm society that has been based on fear, greed, and ego-based manipulation. Each of these worn-out structures will need radical reshaping over the coming years.

The year 2009 is a turning point, for it is the start of several years of reconfiguration. The reshaping involved will be both personal and global.

Remember Your Role

The fifth factor is remembering your role. That means letting go of fear-based human conditioning that tells you some outside force is coming to the rescue. That same conditioning tells you that you are flawed, need fixing, need to be told what to do, and are simply lacking in what it takes to succeed this life.

It may feel comforting to imagine an advanced group of beings from the stars coming to save you and the planet. Is it also comforting to imagine that, without such intervention, you would be helpless and fail at what you came to Earth to do?

Certainly, life does exist beyond the planet you now call home. And to be sure, there are boundless intelligent life forms existing that your scientists and governments have yet to make public. Some of these life forms have been in regular contact with humanity, and not just in recent decades.

Have you ever wondered where YOU came from? Has anyone ever told you that YOU are Divine? Have you ever associated your humanness with a Divine imprint that is eternal?

Remember that you, as a Divine Changemaker, are an integral part of the shift. The key changes involve shifts in consciousness within individuals such as you. As you make these, and then interact with others and society, there is a domino effect.

Underneath the layers of falseness you unknowingly took on in human form, you really know the truth. At the core of your being, there is really no doubt about who you are, why your human experiences are such a gift, and how you are meant to be on Earth now to forever change the landscape for humankind.

In the early weeks of 2009, world leaders and people everywhere will be taking stock and choosing what will play out in this next phase. Some of this choosing will be conscious, with people being aware of what they are choosing. On other levels, the choosing will take place under the radar, masquerading as something like inaction or avoidance.

Checklist for a New Start

What kind of new start would you like to choose? What would you like 2009 and the next few years to look like? How do you see yourself taking your place alongside other Divine Changemakers? Consider these questions and the following as you envision what you want to create next. Invite your heart’s wisdom to guide you as you reflect on these ideas.

Biggest Obstacle
What is my biggest obstacle faced in 2009?
What can I do differently that will resolve this?
What resources have I not yet used fully that could help me resolve this?
How can I involve spirit more in resolving obstacles such as this?

Biggest Choice
What is the biggest choice I must make in 2009?
What’s the big picture surrounding this choice?
How will my making this choice, and acting on it, change my life?

Greatest Allies
Who are my greatest allies on my path of Light?
Who helps me to find my center when I get off track?
Who in my circle connects me with laughter and lightness of being?
Who teaches me the most about myself?
Who helps me to connect with spirit?
Who helps me to connect with my inner truth?
Greatest Opportunities
In what direction will I find expanded opportunities?
Who are the people I am meant to serve?
How do I find and connect with these people?
What can I change in what I offer to be of most service to these people?
What is the one thing to let go of for greater success?
How do I get in the way of my own success?
What can I offer that will be in demand in any economic climate?
What do I need to know or do in order to successfully offer this to the world?

As you continue the journey of rediscovering your Divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings.

We are The Council of 12.

Copyright 2008 by Selacia, Channel for The Council of 12 * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com

You know that you live in times of great change. What does this really mean? How do you make sense of the nonsense? What do you need to know in order to take appropriate action on the things that do make sense? How do you become more comfortable with the ongoing uncertainty that’s a natural element of these times?

You are witnessing countless changes in the fabric of your world, and within yourself as you evolve and adapt to the continual shifting within humanity. In addition to simply witnessing these changes, you in fact are an integral part of the movement of change.

The more that you become consciously aware of this, and apply this understanding to your life, the more empowered you will be.

When you begin to view the chaos and shifting in this big-picture way, you have the fuel to start stepping into your authentic power. When you know that you are an instrumental part of what is happening, and that you can alter your experiences by how you respond to them, you step into your ability to become a master of your human reality.
Awakening to Your Mastery

It is your Divine birthright to awaken to your mastery and to fully embody spirit in your human form. Because of your true nature-which is Divine-you have the ability to achieve this in some lifetime on Earth.

This is the path of enlightenment undertaken by the great Masters who came before you-including Gautama Buddha, the Christ, and Kuan Yin. They gave you a path of awakening to follow. The jewel that they discovered can be yours, yet you must find it on your own.

It is your inner decision to discover this jewel for yourself that sets you apart from the ordinary human. Your decision, made initially and then reaffirmed regularly, elevates your path to one that is fueled by spirit. This changes everything!

Therefore, why not make the conscious decision that you will become enlightened, to the best of your ability, within your current human lifespan? Allow that one decision to become a real energetic driving force within you, impacting all that you do and all that you are. Strengthen the benefits of that initial decision with mindful appreciation of your spiritual progress, and with an ongoing recommitment to your path of awakening.

Remembering What is Important

Each time you feel challenged by something, you can break free of the dilemma more quickly by remembering what is truly important. Remind yourself, therefore, of your larger goal of mastery. Be willing to look beyond the surface happenstance of your challenge to understand what it can teach you about being empowered and whole.

You cannot be empowered and a victim at the same time. Therefore, each time you step into your true power as an authentic human being, the echo of your previous victim energy grows dimmer.

Humans for thousands of years have learned to think of themselves as small and powerless, with lots of things to fear. This victim mentality goes hand-in-hand with anger, hatred and other low-vibrational energies. A victim mentality has fueled all of the planet’s wars involving domination and control. Today’s wars take place in politically sensitive locations like the Middle East, but also in peoples’ living rooms where television delivers subliminal messages of fear.

The more that you awaken, the more you realize the nonsense of wars and fear-based power structures based on one entity having power over another. After all, this outmoded view of power-based on external factors-leads only to destruction and disconnectedness. It fuels peoples’ fear, and the momentum of fear keeps the old system in place.

It is up to each person, at the individual level, to say “no” to the fear and to choose authentic power. This is the sensible approach to the nonsense.

It’s normal to have lots of questions as you embark on this different kind of path. The road that an authentic empowered human travels is quite different from the road of the victim. For most people, steeped in victimhood training from an early age, this new path can feel quite foreign. To be sure, the empowerment path comes with its own language, its own energetic blueprint, and its own signposts.

Language of Empowerment

When you are expressing authentic power, you exude life-affirming energies through your mind, voice and beingness. Your thoughts are free of fear, free of judgment, and free of the need to control. You have let go of the scheming and trying to be someone you are not, having given yourself and others permission to simply be. The words you use when speaking with others are kind and without agenda. Your self-talk is aligned with your soul, providing you with an inner confidence and a joyful energy. At the same time, this empowered self-talk helps you to discover meaning and purpose in all that you observe and touch.

Energetic Blueprint of Empowerment

Once you learn this new language, and apply it in your life, your energy spirals in an upward direction. It is a natural “high.” You have an inner strength that is unshakeable, for you no longer depend on external power as your fuel. Your life force increases, and your changed energetic blueprint radiates the vibration of authenticity and wholeness. This new blueprint is harmonious with intimacy, allowing you to become comfortable relating to others. Your empowered energy is naturally broadcast out to the world as you interact with people, places and things.

Signposts of Empowerment

As this happens, you become a magnet for all sorts of positive experiences and openings of consciousness. New people begin to come into your life, and even “old” friends are seen and experienced differently than before.

Your energy has shifted. As part of that, you begin updating relationships and situations to reflect where you are now in awareness. Sometimes it means getting out of very toxic circumstances.

At other times, you could become close friends with an acquaintance you had previously kept at a distance. A romance with a platonic friend could blossom too. Intimacy is no longer the scary thing it once was. Having left your victim role in the dust, you now are able to come from an authentic place as you relate to others. The relationships you form are based on love, trust and mutual respect. You have stopped trying to change people, and you no longer feel driven to alter yourself to fit in. Your relationships provide you with outlets to express your inner joy, and as you do so, you generate even more joy!

What you do in the world-your work, your hobbies, your caretaking, your spiritual practice-becomes embodied with meaning and purpose. There is an enthusiasm you did not have before. There is a trust, deep within you, that you are putting your energies into what matters most in each moment.

You no longer look to outside authorities to validate whether you are in the right place at the right time. This old-paradigm reference point no longer serves you. You inherently know, with every fabric of your being, that what’s really important is be fully present with each activity you are guided to undertake. This guidance is internal, sourced from deep within you and connected with your soul. The more that you trust it and work with it, the more this guidance will become a natural beacon for your next steps.

Your own empowerment is a key factor in your ability to see clearly into the nonsense of these times. As long as you are coming from fear, whether consciously or subconsciously, you will miss or misinterpret the voice of your own intuitively guided reason. This voice could bring you sanity and a sense of peace when there are no obvious outward signs of sanity or peace in your world.

The Distortion of Fear

The following is an example of how fear can distort your reality.

Your typical livelihood may be threatened by an economic downturn or other changes in your workplace. Perhaps funding for your type of job is in question. You are very good at what you do, and you would like to continue doing it. You know that you have additional skills, too, which could be applied to other things, but your fear causes you to overlook this. Your focus, instead, is on the possible “loss” and your desire to keep things on your own terms.

That focus, of course, is your fear talking and not your intuitively guided reason.

When you investigate your fear, you may discover that it is based on some outmoded belief systems recorded in your DNA. These beliefs, stored in your subconscious mind and out of ordinary view, may come from your ancestral lineage.

In a way, these beliefs are part of you, for they are in your DNA, yet in another way, they are old energy you took on from people of long ago who lived in different times. When you realize you have these limiting beliefs, of course, you see how debilitating they are to the current “you” of this lifetime. You understand that these belief systems are casting a dark shadow on your experience, preventing you from seeing things clearly.

Your ancestors may have lived during a time when it was the norm to work in the family business. That work was their livelihood, and the fruits of it were enjoyed by subsequent generations when children matured and took over responsibilities. Perhaps war or lengthy severe weather patterns destroyed the family business.

The young man just about to take over his father’s role was forced into a life of servitude with another family far away.

This young man, one of your ancestors, in response to what happened, developed the following belief systems that were passed down through the generations to you.

1. When I lose my job, I lose my freedom.
2. When a business fails, I fail.
3. When my business collapses, I am never successful again.
4. When my job ends, I am poor.
5. When my family has misfortune, I am destined to have misfortune.
6. When I lose my job, I lose the place I know as home.

If you have beliefs such as these in your DNA and your livelihood is threatened, the potential job loss can catalyze the beliefs into active expression.

Then, without your conscious direction, these fear-based beliefs can begin influencing how you respond to the uncertainty at work.

Typically when this happens it’s a very subtle, but potent, force in the background. Since the beliefs triggered are from your subconscious and not from something you personally experienced this life, it’s unlikely that you connect the dots to recognize what is occurring.

Changing Beliefs in Your DNA

When you become aware of the specific limiting beliefs you hold in such a circumstance-and clear them from your DNA at the origination point-you can begin to change your experience of economic downturns and job losses.

When you change your experience of something, it’s more about changing your view and response to what is occurring. You can’t always prevent a job loss or some other type of misfortune.

However, when you embody authentic power, you don’t let these things defeat you. You see losses and other difficulties as vehicles for learning and growth. You know that oftentimes these situations are quite different than they appear. You have learned to see them as spirit’s nudges to think differently, or to move into other directions more in alignment with your soul’s path.

To be sure, many of the changes involved in the paradigm shift involve this last point. This is true for individuals as well as for the myriad of societal structures and approaches that were birthed in the much different times.

Humans on a Fast Track of Learning

Humans are on a fast track in learning new more enlightened ways to live together.

Groups of people–assembled in apartment building hallways, town halls, national capitals, and international think tanks–are moving beyond the “ME” and “what about us?” consciousness to consider innovative bridge-building solutions to impact the whole.

Some of humanity’s most brilliant inventions may come out of these times.

The momentum of positive change is accelerating at lightning speed, regardless of how it may appear much of the time. Remember this on the days when you feel that things aren’t changing fast enough, and on the days when it appears your life has been turned upside down too fast.

Using Your Uneasiness as a Navigational Tool

Have you ever had a feeling that something was about to happen, yet you felt clueless about what it was or how it might affect you? Did you then get an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach or in your throat?

These days, if you feel uneasy some of the time, you are not alone. After all, so much is changing so fast, and it’s increasingly common to feel a bit anxious about what’s coming next.

It can be helpful if you learn to use your uneasiness as a navigational tool. Sometimes that uneasy feeling is a message from spirit to change course, or to sit still. At other times, it’s simply your fear scaring you. Remember what fear is–False Evidence Appearing Real.

The following are suggestions to help you use your uneasiness as a navigational tool.

1. Don’t be at war with your uneasiness.
2. Don’t insist that it disappear.
3. Don’t make it wrong.
4. Don’t make it into more than it is.
5. Don’t take action until you become clear about what your uneasiness is telling you.
6. Ask questions of your own intuitively guided reason to determine whether your uneasiness is simply your fear talking, or whether it’s a message from spirit to be still, to change course, to be concerned, to take an immediate action, or to simply wait.As you continue the journey of rediscovering your Divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings. We are The Council of 12.

Copyright 2008 by Selacia, Channel for The Council of 12 * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com

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a message from The Council of 12 channeled by Selacia
Saturday, 31 May, 2008

Right now, you are in the midst of a revolution in human consciousness. This involves such significant changes in how people live and view life that you don’t yet have language for it.

You are having some previews of coming attractions in those fleeting moments when you realize you know something there’s “no way” you could have known. It happens when you lose track of time, and when you discover that some projects typically taking you an entire day are accomplished within a single hour. It occurs when you meet people for the first time and feel strangely comfortable with them, as though you had known them forever. It happens when you contemplate a troublesome issue before dreamtime, inviting a Divine resolution, and you awaken with fresh new insights that can help you turn things around. It occurs when you go beyond reason and discern a truth with your heart and intuitive knowing. It takes place in the moments when you let go and simply allow yourself to see what was there all along.

Seeing What Was There All Along

What you find may astonish you! An example is your sensing the presence of a benevolent nonphysical spirit guide. This guide may have been around you for your entire life, yet perhaps now is the first time you have had the readiness and willingness to recognize its presence.

Another example involves times when you are able to suddenly connect the dots involving a puzzle of pain you’ve been trying to heal for years. You may have had realizations about your issue many other times, yet none of them led you out of the maze that kept you hopelessly stuck. This time, though, you really get what the root of your problem is. A “flash” of insight and Divine grace, coming seemingly out of nowhere, helps you to illuminate the root of your pain, fully understand the connecting pieces with the “big view” spirit has, and then take actions leading to a final resolution.

As you grow in awareness, the truth which was there all along comes to the surface and it becomes easier for you to recognize it as truth. This is happening, on a more conscious level, for light workers who are questioning what they were taught, questioning the media, and sincerely desiring to know what is real. Indeed, the more that you can recognize truth, the more quickly you can advance up and out of the dark rabbit hole of human ignorance.

Reversing the Long Sleep of Human Ignorance

During this time of change, people from all walks of life are beginning to awaken from a very long sleep. On some days, it may not feel like it, yet this is what is occurring. The planet’s evolution into a higher consciousness is indeed underway, and this movement will proceed even if the majority of people are not “ready” for the shift.

This last point is something to remember on those days when you feel concern for the plight of fear-based masses of people in all corners of the world. On those days, you may question whether there is “time” and whether the majority of people really care about anything beyond mundane concerns.

When you are feeling like that, rather than dwell on the negative, focus your energies in positive ways that can help yourself and others. Regardless of what others are doing, decide that you will be ready for the next stages of the shift. Remember, also, that upward spirals of growth can occur very slowly or seemingly in a “flash” of time. This applies to both individuals and the planet as a whole.

How quickly a person evolves is directly related to the level of willingness to change. There must be openness to seeing things differently, questioning one’s own status quo, responding with radical new approaches, and fearlessly making different choices without a road map, While this approach may sound like an impossible feat to someone mired in a life crisis, even the ordinary person can succeed if there is enough self-love.

Self-love is the Key

Set your intention daily to develop even more self-love than you had yesterday. Decide that you will be willing to look closely at those patterns within you that prevent you from being unconditionally loving. When these patterns come into your awareness, be dedicated to rooting them out so that you can become free of them. Approach your inner work with fearlessness, kindness and patience. During this process of transformation, set your intent to nurture yourself just like a loving mother would do with her young child.

It is not selfish to love yourself, and to create a lifestyle that allows you to transform and progress spiritually. In fact, you harm yourself and others when you neglect your own growth. Each time you choose thoughts and actions coming from love, you impact countless other sentient beings with a wave of uplifting energy!

Ascension is a natural process, unfolding for the planet and its life forms. If you are here in a body right now, you have unprecedented opportunities to advance as a soul, in part because of incarnating on Earth at this auspicious time. These opportunities begin to present themselves as soon as you have a sincere desire for positive change and take actions on that desire.

Unique Opportunities of This Life

If you have been on the path of expanded awareness for some time, you have had glimpses of just how precious this lifetime is for your own progress as a soul. Most likely, you have had experiential evidence of some key opportunities not available to you in previous lives.

For example, to live today offers the opportunity to have real-time access to world events, providing learning about diverse cultures and ways of thinking and being. The ability to know about the sufferings and celebrations of people half-way across the world helps you to move into an expanded awareness of the interconnectedness of all life.

Rather than simply focusing on your own problems of the moment, you learn that people everywhere are actually quite similar. Underneath their false egocentric exteriors, people on all continents want the same things-to love and be loved, to be happy, to feel secure, and to feel empowered.

When you really get what this means in practice, beyond the words, it can begin to change your life. First, being exposed to humanity in this way and realizing these simple truths can help you to be more accepting of yourself. Developing more self-love is the first ingredient needed to advance spiritually. With more love and compassion for yourself, you can then extend that outward to others. Remembering that other people are also learning how to love, it is easier for you to be kind regardless of circumstances. This kindness is your love in action.

Timing of the Shift

Many of the old paradigm structures of humanity’s past-including fear-based institutions of control and hierarchical governments-could not change before now because the consensus reality did not support it.

The consensus reality is formed by individuals over time, each person shaping it by how they view the world. A person’s views include countless belief systems held within the DNA. These beliefs include those inherited from one’s ancestors many generations back, those formed in past lives, those taken on from the mass consciousness, and those formed in the current life. All of these reside in the subconscious, out of ordinary awareness.

To change the consensus reality, then, requires that sufficient people change their world view-from the inside out-and then apply that new view to actions in the world. This change is within one person at a time, and yet the inner change of even one person can impact many other people.

On an individual level, the process of awakening into a higher consciousness is often accompanied by feelings of urgency and strong desires to change the status quo. The more that you see things as they really are, rather than the sugar-coated version of reality you previously embraced, it’s natural to notice how out-of-balance things have become.

A part of you knows that you will need to become more balanced, more whole, and more self-accepting before you can see your world clearly. The next big jump that you as a soul are preparing to make this incarnation can only be taken successfully when you have that clarity.

For this reason, the force of spirit within you is guiding you into avenues of potential transformation and nudging you in the direction of positive change. It is in your highest good, therefore, to learn as much as you can about decoding the messages of spirit, and to develop a deeper and more tangible connection with your spiritual guidance. As part of that, it is essential to become practiced in acting on the intuitive guidance you receive. Know that even the seemingly trivial intuitive messages, when acted upon, can lead you to great leaps in personal growth. Therefore, as you become proficient in decoding the messages of spirit, and appropriately act upon them, you can greatly accelerate your personal shifting process.

The Shift & Physical Symptoms

For those who tend to process energetic shifts physically, this current cycle of change is likely to catalyze physical symptoms. Examples include periodic aches and pains, sleep disturbances, headaches, lack of energy, feeling ungrounded or spacey, and unexplained sensitivities to foods and other things.

All of a sudden, for example, you can have indigestion or another physical response after eating a food that’s long been a part of your diet. Sometimes this will have to do with the food’s preparation, or with how it’s treated with chemicals. At other times, your food reaction will have nothing to do with these things, as your body is simply rejecting what you ate for a host of possible reasons.

One explanation is this. On some days, as your body processes unseen energetic shifts, certain foods can set off a physical reaction within you. If what your body really needed was just a glass of water for hydration and you ate your favorite rice dish, you could have a reaction. Likewise, if you were starting to feel a bit spacey and ate a calorie-laden snack instead of grounding yourself with a walk barefoot on the grass, you could end up feeling tired instead of centered.

Get in the habit, therefore, of learning to intuit what your body really needs and giving it that. Here’s a brief checklist of questions to ask yourself to confirm what your body needs. To ask these, become still for a moment and invite your intuitively guided reason to show you what is most appropriate. Then listen with relaxed, focused attention to determine the optimal course of action.

1. Does my body need water or hydration?
2. Does my body need grounding and centering?
3. Does my body need sleep, more rest or to de-stress?
4. Would exercise help?
5. How about a process or physical movement encouraging deep breathing?
6. Does my body need food, and if so, what type is best?
7. Is the uncomfortable or other physical sensation I’m feeling due to what I recently ingested?
8. If so, what about the food or drink is impacting me (additives, method of preparation, how much I ate, the food combining, etc.)?
9. If my body is having a physical reaction, what is the optimal remedy (alter the diet, wait a while to eat or drink anything else, do a detoxification or juice fast, etc.)?
10. Is my reaction temporary only, or do I need to stop ingesting something in my usual diet?
11. What else would my body like right now?
12. How can I take better care of my body in general?

To be sure, as you progress on the path of personal transformation, you will find that your body requires adjustments in diet, rest and self-care. You will want to keep up-to-date with what you personally need at each stage. No outside authority can give you the real-time wisdom that your own body can!

DNA Changes During the Shift

Your very DNA is changing during humanity’s great shift. These DNA changes impact you on all levels–including physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. It’s quite common, as this happens, for you to benefit from a higher vibrational diet that can optimally support the changes happening within you at a cellular level. Many of the things you enjoyed eating and drinking in the past will simply be out of harmony with your new energy. If you still eat some of these foods, your body may have difficulty processing them. Similarly, if you have grown accustomed to a very stress-filled life and don’t give your body enough rest and quality sleep, you can slow down your own personal transformation process.

As you evolve, you shed the density of your humanness, including patterns held within you on a physical level within the DNA. Many of your patterns shift as you do personal inner work. Sometimes your shifting is catalyzed when others around you with a similar pattern begin changing in significant ways, and your readiness to transform facilitates your own leap forward.

One of the biggest changes on the planet today is how rapidly people are able to shed their long-held negative patterns. The releasing still happens in layers, for this is the natural way energy moves, yet the process is speedier and deeper than possible before now. Shedding these layers allows you to hold increasing amounts of Light and to greatly accelerate your progress as a soul this lifetime.

If you were involved with personal transformational work a decade or so ago, and today approach your evolutionary process with the current energies, you will sense the difference. There are some “new” healing methods available, yet it’s much more than method. It’s really about the energy available to you during these times, and connected to the higher consciousness that is developing within people. Things are accelerated, with a lighter feel, and accomplished with greater ease. Even “old” methods, when applied today, can yield much faster results than were possible in earlier times.

Change can be fast, yet keep in mind the importance of patience and Divine timing, developing a trust in the unseen mysteries of spirit working in your life.

The more that you can approach your own shifting with loving kindness, the smoother your road of change will be. On some days it may still feel like a roller coaster ride, yet your self-love can help you to have the necessary steadiness within.

As you continue the journey of rediscovering your Divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings. We are The Council of 12.

Copyright 2008 by Selacia, Channel for The Council of 12 * All Rights Reserved * www.Selacia.com

The Awakening:

A time comes in your life when you finally get it when in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out ENOUGH! fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes you begin to look at the world through new eyes.
This is your Awakening
You realize it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change or for happiness, safety and security to come galloping over the next horizon. You come to terms with the fact that he is not Prince Charming and you are not Cinderella and in the real world there aren't always Fairy Tale endings (or beginnings for that matter) and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance.
You awaken to the fact you are not perfect and not everyone will always love, appreciate or approve of who or what you are and that's OK. (They are entitled to their own views and opinions.) And you learn the importance of loving and championing yourself and in the process a sense of new found confidence is born of self approval.
You stop complaining and blaming other people for the things they did to you (or didn't do for you) and you learn that the only thing you can really count on is the unexpected. You learn people don't always say what they mean or mean what they say and not everyone will always be there for you and that it's not always about you. So, you learn to stand on your own and to take care of yourself and in the process a sense of safety and security is born of self-reliance.
You stop judging and pointing fingers and you begin to accept people as they are, and to overlook their shortcomings and human frailties, and in the process a sense of peace and contentment is born of forgiveness. You realize that much of the way you view yourself, and the world around you, is as a result of all the messages and opinions that have been ingrained into your psyche. And you begin to sift through all the things you've been fed about how you should behave, how you should look, and how much you should weigh, what you should wear, and where you should shop, and what you should drive, how and where you should live, and what you should do for a living, who you should sleep with, who you should marry, and what you should expect of a marriage, the importance of having and raising children or what you owe your parents.
You learn to open up to new worlds and different points of view. And you begin reassessing and redefining who you are what you really stand for. You learn the difference between wanting and needing and you begin to discard the doctrines and values you've outgrown, or should never have bought into to begin with, and in the process you learn to go with your instincts.
You learn it is truly in giving that we receive. And there is power and glory in creating and contributing and you stop maneuvering through life merely as a "consumer" looking for your next fix. You learn principles such as honesty and integrity are not the outdated ideals of a by-gone era but the mortar that holds together the foundation upon which you must build a life. You learn you don't know everything, its not your job to save the world and you can't teach a pig to sing. You learn to distinguish between guilt and responsibility and the importance of setting boundaries and learning to say NO. You learn the only cross to bear is the one you choose to carry and that martyrs get burned at the stake.
Then you learn about love. Romantic love and familial love. How to love, how much to give in love, when to stop giving and when to walk away. You learn not to project your needs or your feelings onto a relationship. You learn you will not be more beautiful, more intelligent, more lovable or important because of the man or woman on your arm or the child that bears your name.
You learn to look at relationships as they really are and not as you would have them be. You stop trying to control people, situations and outcomes. You learn just as people grow and change so it is with love and you learn you don't have the right to demand love on your terms just to make you happy.
You learn that alone does not mean lonely And you look in the mirror and come to terms with the fact you will never be a size 5 or a perfect 10 and you stop trying to compete with the image inside your head and agonizing over how you "stack up."
You also stop working so hard at putting your feelings aside, smoothing things over and ignoring your needs. You learn feelings of entitlement are perfectly OK .and that it is your right to want things and to ask for the things that you want and that sometimes it is necessary to make demands.
You come to the realization you deserve to be treated with love, kindness, sensitivity and respect and you won't settle for less. And, you allow only the hands of a lover who cherishes you to glorify you with her or his touch and in the process you internalize the meaning of self-respect.
And you learn your body really is your temple. And you begin to care for it and treat it with respect. You begin eating a balanced diet, drinking more water and taking more time to exercise. You learn fatigue diminishes the spirit and can create doubt and fear. So you take more time to rest. And, just as food fuels the body, laughter fuels our soul. So you take more time to laugh and to play.
You learn, that for the most part, in life you get what you believe you deserve and that much of life truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You learn anything worth achieving is worth working for and wishing for something to happen is different from working toward making it happen. More importantly, you learn in order to achieve success you need direction, discipline and perseverance. You also learn no one can do it all alone and that it's OK to risk asking for help.
You learn the only thing you must truly fear is the great robber baron of all time FEAR itself. You learn to step right into and through your fears because you know whatever happens you can handle it and to give in to fear is to give away the right to live life on your terms. And you learn to fight for your life and not to squander it living under a cloud of impending doom. You learn life isn't always fair, you don't always get what you think you deserve and sometimes bad things happen to unsuspecting, good people. On these occasions you learn not to personalize things. You learn no one is punishing you or failing to answer your prayers. It's just life happening.
And you learn to deal with evil in its most primal state the ego.
You learn negative feelings such as anger, envy and resentment must be understood and redirected or they will suffocate the life out of you and poison the universe that surrounds you. You learn to admit when you are wrong and to building bridges instead of walls.
You learn to be thankful and to take comfort in many of the simple things we take for granted, things that millions of people upon the earth can only dream about: a full refrigerator, clean running water, a soft warm bed, a long hot shower.
Slowly, you begin to take responsibility for yourself by yourself and you to make yourself a promise to never betray yourself and to never ever settle for less than your heart's desire. And you hang a wind chime outside your window so you can listen to the wind. And you make it a point to keep smiling, to keep trusting, and to stay open to every wonderful possibility. Finally, with courage in your heart and with faith by your side you take a stand, you take a deep breath and you begin to design the life you want to live as best as you can.
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May God protect You…

May God protect you
From scary nights,
from hasty flights;
From too much food,
from a somber mood;
From ringing bells,
from self-made hells;
From sickish pains,
from dishonest gains;
From excessive needs,
from tricky deeds;
From foolish quarrels,
from resting on laurels;
From silly fears,
from idle tears;
From forgotten lines,
And from all bad times.
We pray,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
from The Irish, p.55
by Fr. Andrew Greeley

Dawn of New Beginnings

O God,
We thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.
We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and taste autumn's fruit, rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of spring flowers.
Grant us a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with your glory.
For each new dawn is filled with infinite possibilities for new beginnings and new discoveries. Life is constantly changing and renewing itself. In this new day of new beginnings with God, all things are possible. We are restored and renewed in a joyous awakening to the wonder that our lives are and, yet, can be.
Amen.

Earth Day Prayer

O GOD,
we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.
We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and taste autumn's fruit, and rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the breath of spring flowers.
GRANT US a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with your glory.

Keeping It In Focus

Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote many years ago:
"There is no place where God is not. God is there in a thousand wonders, upholding rocky barriers, filling the buttercups with their perfume and refreshing the lonely pines with the breath of his mouth. Descend…into the lowest depths of the ocean, where undisturbed water sleeps, and the very sand is motionless in unbroken quiet, but the glory of the Lord is there, revealing its excellence in the silent palace of the sea. Borrow the wings of the morning and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, but God is there."
His beauty is stamped in all of creation:
The glory of God can be seen
from the smallest raindrop
to the mighty flash of lightning;
from the tiny rosebud
to the huge magnolia blossom;
from the rich, fertile soil of the Mississippi Delta
to the arid, dusty land of the desert.
We can see His stamp of glory in all the world,
from the music of a sparkling brook
to the majestic tumbling waterfall;
from the gnarled, gentle hands of a loving grandfather
to the birth-fresh fragility of a baby’s fingernail;
from the silence of the stars to the peal of thunder;
from the mirror-like smoothness of a placid lake
to the wind-driven thunderous waves smashing on the shore.
In the fresh greenery of the spring; in the dazzling color of autumn; in the joy of discovery on a baby’s face; and in the fulfillment and meaning of the New Birth, we can see the glory of God.